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The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

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Nicole Mottier
Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 130–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2012.86.3.130
Published: 01 July 2012
...Nicole Mottier The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside . By Elizabeth Fitting . Durham : Duke University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $23.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4956-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book...
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Canning Gold: Northern New England’s Sweet Corn Industry

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Derek Oden
Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 617–619.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-77.4.617
Published: 01 October 2003
...Derek Oden Canning Gold: Northern New England’s Sweet Corn Industry . Paul B. Frederic . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 617 The emperor Constantine initiated this revival by creating a stable gold currency around 311 a.d. While base-metal coins...
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The Corn King of Mexico in the United States: A South-North Technology Transfer

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Jeri L. Reed
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 155–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.155
Published: 01 April 2004
... landowner who turned his haciendas into private agricultural experiment stations, conducting research on better methods of growing corn, cotton, wheat, and beans with the labor of his peones. He shared his results through lecture tours and published works in Mexico and traveled extensively in the United...
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Corn & Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance

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Stephanie A. Carpenter
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 254–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.254
Published: 01 April 2004
...Stephanie A. Carpenter Corn &amp; Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance . Arturo Warman . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 254 / Agricultural History duties they entailed is the real strength of this book. The decline of the family farm...
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From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures

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Frederick Kirschenmann
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 138–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.138
Published: 01 January 2009
...Frederick Kirschenmann From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures . Joan Iverson Nassauer , Mary V. Santelmann and Donald Scavia . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter...
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Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

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Andy Bruno
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 757–759.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.4.757
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and the Communists implemented their land reform across provinces in different times often with inconsistent policy instructions. That being said, Land Wars is an important, very readable work for understanding the Chinese Communist Revolution and PRC history. Yixin Chen University of North Carolina Wilmington Corn...
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Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the US Heartland

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Annka Liepold
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 111–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.1.111
Published: 01 January 2017
...Annka Liepold Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the US Heartland . By Cynthia Clampitt . Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . 304 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-08057-9 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 interpretation will not come as a complete...
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The Global Ascension of Corn and Soybeans: From Managing Supply to Expanding Production in the United States and the World

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Bill Winders
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 470–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11225640
Published: 01 August 2024
...Bill Winders Abstract As part of the “iron triangle,” producer and corporate interests have a significant influence on agricultural policy, but this influence is complicated by changing and competing interests, particularly around corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat. From the 1930s to the 1970s...
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Iowa Farmers and Mechanical Corn Pickers, 1900–1952

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Thomas Burnell Colbert
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 530–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.530
Published: 01 April 2000
...Thomas Burnell Colbert Iowa Farmers 1900-1952 and Mechanical Corn Pickers, THOMAS BURNELL COLBERT Large cropping equipment can be seen everywhere in Iowa today?from seven-ton tractors to twelve-ton self-propelled combines. All of these implements are a far cry from the machinery used from...
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Figure 1. Hours of labor on wheat and corn farms, 1917. Note the labor demands of a corn farm are quite uniform throughout a year, whereas the wheat farm has extremely concentrated demands for human labor around the time of the harvest. Other farms surveyed in the yearbook had even higher contrasts, and on nonmechanized farms, demand could range as high as twenty to thirty times the “normal” during harvest. Based on chart in Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1917 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918), 544–45 (chart found in G. Wright, “American Agriculture and the Labor Market,” 205).

Hours of labor on wheat and corn farms, 1917. Note the labor demands of a c...

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in Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870–1922 > Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2023
figure 1. Hours of labor on wheat and corn farms, 1917. Note the labor demands of a corn farm are quite uniform throughout a year, whereas the wheat farm has extremely concentrated demands for human labor around the time of the harvest. Other farms surveyed in the yearbook had even higher More
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Figure 2. Global GE corn and soybean acres, 1996–2019. Source: Clive James, “Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2018,” table 1; Clive James, “Executive Summary: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2019.”

Global GE corn and soybean acres, 1996–2019. Source: Clive James, “Global S...

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in The Global Ascension of Corn and Soybeans: From Managing Supply to Expanding Production in the United States and the World > Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2. Global GE corn and soybean acres, 1996–2019. Source: Clive James, “Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2018,” table 1; Clive James, “Executive Summary: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2019.” More
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Contour farming on a sloped field with alternating rows of corn, grain, and hay. Stacks of hay line the contours. Forested hills and open farmland extend into the background.

Westby (Vernon County), Wisconsin. Contour strip cropping showing corn, gra...

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in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl > Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 6. Westby (Vernon County), Wisconsin. Contour strip cropping showing corn, grain, alfalfa, grain, alfalfa (1937). Photograph by George V. Gideon. Source: Douglas Helms Collection, Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. More
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Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000

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G. N. Uzoigwe
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 292–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.292
Published: 01 April 2007
...G. N. Uzoigwe Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000 . James C. McCann . Agricultural History Spring edge transfer occurred in the reverse direction, with applied research triggering fundamental research...
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Fertile Grounds: Knowledge, Ceremony, and the Intensification of Maize

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Patrick Bottiger
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 513–546.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10795855
Published: 01 November 2023
...”—this essay argues that the cultivation and spread of corn, beans, and squash radically remade Indigenous North America into a world bound by a set of relationships and reciprocal responsibilities between humans and plants. These plants were far more than commodities. They were kin—or, as plant ecologist...
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Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

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Abeer Saha
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 694–696.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10796036
Published: 01 November 2023
...Abeer Saha [email protected] Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction . By Helen Anne Curry . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . 336 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780520307698 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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Soil as the Archive

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Saskia C. C. Cornes
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 643–648.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10795945
Published: 01 November 2023
...Saskia C. C. Cornes [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 I first came to Duke Campus Farm in winter, for an interview, hoping to become the site's inaugural full-time farm manager. The ground was frozen and the soil tight-lipped, revealing...
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The Paradox of Plows and Productivity: An Agronomic Comparison of Cereal Grain Production under Iroquois Hoe Culture and European Plow Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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Jane Mt. Pleasant
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 460–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.4.460
Published: 01 October 2011
...Jane Mt. Pleasant Abstract Iroquois maize farmers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced three to five times more grain per acre than wheat farmers in Europe. The higher productivity of Iroquois agriculture can be attributed to two factors. First, the absence of plows in the western...
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Winds of Change: Plant Pathology, Transnational Wheat Rust, and the Environmental Origins of the Green Revolution, 1904–1953

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John R. Garnett
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10337961
Published: 01 May 2023
...John R. Garnett Abstract Created in 1943, the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) was a collaborative program between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government aimed at improving yields of corn and wheat varieties in Mexico. The MAP's wheat program was more influential than its corn...
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Viticulture in El Paso del Norte during the Colonial Period

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Rick Hendricks
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 191–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.2.191
Published: 01 April 2004
... that, according to contemporary accounts, rivaled the finest wines of Mexico or even Spain. As the century wore on, the fruits of the vine increased in importance in comparison with other agricultural products. In most years only maize competed with wine and brandy as the most valuable agricultural crop. So...
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Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the Green Revolution in Mexico

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JONATHAN HARWOOD
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 384–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.384
Published: 01 July 2009
... experience of the problems faced by small farmers in the United States and elsewhere.Moreover, the foundation’s expressed concern for rural poverty does not appear to have been mere posturing by an organization anxious to be seen as an agent of philanthropy. Furthermore, the program’s early work in maize...
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